You have your American Native Flick(Made by and about Natives in the US) Canadian Native Flicks(Made by and about First Nations/Aboriginals in CA) Hollywood Native Flicks(Made by White people and about stereotyped Indians). And finally Documentaries.
Im going to give you everything but the Hollywood ones.
This is just a sample. Some movies may be hard to understand without knowledge of some native culture or what it is like to live on the rez.
{is a list of what tribe or area and period the movie is set in}
Smoke Signals( classic!){NW to SW, 90s}
Pow-Wow Highway (the original classic){Great Plains to SW, 80s}
Doe Boy(Sad, but good){Cherokee in Oklahoma, 1970s}
Chiefs(Documentary)
Edge of America(kind of a Native Chick Flick. GREAT!){Navajo in NM, 90s?}
Skins(Very GREAT as well){Oglala Sioux ND, Present}
We Shall Remain(Documentary. 5 different stories. Very Good)
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee(Uhh, very highly made)
Black Cloud(a good story){Navajo AZ, Present}
Turquoise Rose(May would save this one for further viewing, after getting a feel for native movies)Navajo AZ Present}
Four Sheets to the Wind(May would save this one for further viewing, after getting a feel for native movies){Seminole/Creek, OK Present}
Dance Me Outside
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DreamkeeperNative American movies?Taino Movie but it is in Spanish to me is the best Native American movie probably cause I'm Taino.
http://www.tainoslapelicula.com/
Dances with Wolves (1990),
The Last of the Mohicans (1992),
and Geronimo: An American Legend
This is a new Native American Movie.
We Shall Remain (documentary)Native American movies?dances with wolves
the last of the mohicans
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